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Rooting Around

SoulCollage Card ~ Muladhara ~ Root ChakraI have not been writing much here for a couple of reasons and today I just want to say *whatever* to both those reasons and reclaim my space.

I made this SoulCollage card some time ago and I notice that it is the only card I have in my Chakra/Companions Suit. This tells its own story about how disconnected I feel from my body, my energy, my creativity, the earth, how I want my life to be and on infinitum.

I was doing some reading about Muladhara, the Root Chakra, today and one thing jumped out at me from the page. Peter Rendel suggests that if we think about the chakras in terms of sound then the root chakra represents the deepest notes produced such as that of the bass drum or the bassoon.

This got me thinking about the intrusive noise that I live with - low frequency bass level erratic impact noise - and I started seeing my poor root chakra discombobulating at the barrage of disturbance. No wonder I feel fragmented, ungrounded and disconnected.

Looking at the SoulCollage card today I see it not as a balanced root chakra, a grounding centre - instead my interpretation of my root chakra seems to express discord, energy moving all over the place, incoherence. I remember making the card and I felt challenged by it as if I was forcing it onto the card, not really feeling connected to my actual root chakra.

Currently there really is nothing I can do to stop this situation and until I find a solution I think just need to try and find creative ways to deal with it, to realign myself quickly during the times when the noise is not happening.

So I'm spending the afternoon with some books and looking for exercises or meditations I can do with my root chakra, practises I can try to just try and claim some balance in my life.

I've done a bit of sketching with some pastels and this is my calm Muladhara as I see her today.

Muladhara ~ Root Chakra ~ pastel sketch by Taexalia

I just really don't want to be constantly beaten down by this noise all the time.

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Posted on June 14, 2008 in .

One Response to “Rooting Around”

  1. Misssy M says:
    June 14, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    Suz, Really, maybe you should think about a move… Drastic, but if it’s going to drive you insane and upset you every day…a move might be the answer.

    Still you’d be the only person ever to want to see the flat above as well as the one you are considering buying.

    Or cheaper- cavity wall insulation? I believe you can get grants now.

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